menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
Abortion is the complete and total abolition of it. so the dobbs opinion is merely an s the sizing us to th prospect of the slow and incremental removal of all abortion accessibility in that eight states we are seeing that movin quickly to its outcome we saw the is last week when there was that case filed in texas about the wrongful death for termination of pregnancy again, the idea that onl persons get to have long ful death suits. again, acquitting the fetu with a person. and now a black and white in the pages of the united states federal supplement reporter, that this judge is telling u where this is going. this is moving toward feta personhood it is the only place it can go unless there is a response fro the people melissa you, talk about wha is happening in texas and in washington state you talk about what is happening and idaho. you talk about what is happening in at tennessee in the effect of gerrymandering which you have often flagged for us in the theoretica context that you
The next few days on venue, and if he decided not to move venue and we settle this case 10 days from now, the defense lawyers will be back arguing change of venue and the whole discussion would be about the impact of this action on venue rather than focusing on the impact of the publicity back in the spring. so there you see it, a press conference moments after the agreement was announced, settlement of $6.4 million from the city of baltimore to the family of freddie gray. i want to bring in chief legal correspondent ari albert. what does this mean legally? legally it means the death suits, the type of investigation into the officers are being avoided, avoided so that the family will receive this money. as the mayor has said and emphasized, this does not legally change, affect or impact these ongoing enforcement
Prosecutors wanted to introduce evidence of the double homicide charge. and the judge said, you know, i think it would be so prejudicial for the jury to hear about that that it wouldn t be fair and i m not going to the let it in. i think this judge thought in her own mind there was enough evidence anyway for the jury to see in this case. the judge in case number two is going to say the same thing. so unfair he would be convicted on the other charge and jurors will convict on the evidence presented in front of them. i agree with joey, a good chance it s not going to come in because it s not fair for it to come in in a criminal defendant. three death suits. does hernandez have the assets even to handle these cases? randi, interestingly enough what the attorneys did is they made application to the court to freeze the assets because enough of a compelling case and in the eevent the attorneys were able to establish his wrongfulness and negligence, there should be